"JUSTIFYING ITSELF"
LEAGUE OF NATIONS MADE WAR MORE DIFFICULT (British Official Wireless.) Flee. 1 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 20. Sir Austen Chamberlain replied to (he (oast to the league of Nations, proposed by Mi'. Charles Garvin, the well-known journalist, at the luncheon in connection with the Colchester Oyster Festival.
.sir Austen Chamberlain said that when one thought of the place which the League had in the estimation of the world the wonder was not what it had not accomplished, hut that it had so far made good. It had made war more difficult, and it ""a* widely correc tive, content to do any daily task that came to hand, using the strength which it acquired with moderation and wisdom. It, would grow in influence and power, and as it grew, less and less would it he possible for any country to go into war on ■any terms that would secure the approbation of the Council of the League. The League was justifying itself, and with the goodwill of the nations it would preserve the peace of the nations.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16476, 21 October 1927, Page 8
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